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That, befinear'd with recent gore,
Lie on Hofhelega's fhore,
Difembodied fpirits come

And enjoy the victim's doom.

3d Indian. Come, my brethren, fierce and grim,
Fill the cauldron to the brim.
Fuel in the foreft hew,

Cyprefs, pine, and baleful yew,
Till the fmoke and fmould'ring fire
Round the footy fides aspire.

4th Indian. With a thousand tortures flow
Vary his protracted woe:
Every nerve and every vein.
Claims its deftin'd dole of pain,
Till the wilds and rocky fhore
Bellow with th' unpitied roar.

5th Indian. Bend th' elastic bow to fly
With his hairy scalp on high.
Hither, from the wafte of war,
Arefkouy, roll thy car;

Grim with horrible delight,

Hallow the tremendous rite.'

6th Indian. Blafts that wing the winnow'd air
Fly! on rapid pinion bear

Far beyond the billowy main
Screams of anguish, fhricks of pain!

Far beyond th' Atlantic deep

Let his kindred wail and weep.

Neiden. [With threatening gefture addreing Sidney.]

Never, never, never more

Shalt thou tread on Albion's fhore,

Friends and kindred never fee,

But, convuls'd with agony,

Here mid Indian wilds fhalt have

Early thine unhonour'd grave." Vol. ii. P. 56.

The additional poems in the first volume are few: only three are marked as never before publifhed, but, if we mistake not, there are more which were not in the former volume. The will not fail to hold their place in judicious collections."

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ART. 36. An Abridgment of Goodacre's Arithmetic intended for the Ufe of Young Ladies and others, whofe Avacations, will not allow them to spend much Time in the Study of this Science. By Robert Goodacre. 8vo. 84 pp. Is. 6d. Oftell. 1805.

"The following little volume is offered to the public as an abridgment of the author's larger treatife on the fame fubject, and is confined to thofe parts which are indifpenfably neceffary in

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the common tranfactions of life."-"Every part is rendered as concife as poffible, in order alfo to unite cheapnefs with utility." P. 111. It appears to us, that this union is effected in a very commendable manner; and we recommend the work for the ufe of those who are mentioned in the title page.

ART. 37.

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Memoirs of the Life and Achievements of the Right Hon. Horatio Lord Viscount Nelfon. By a Captain of the British Navy. The Sixth Edition. To which is added, a particular Account of the Funeral Proceffion. 8vo. 124 PP. 2s. 6d. Symonds and Hatchard. 1806.

We should not have gueffed this life to be the work of any naval captain, and particularly of a British captain, who, we should have thought, would hardly have made fuch a remark as this: "We have heard of commanders difguifing their perfons-of Lord Rodney's having in battle worn a hairy cap, and in other refpects the garb of a common feaman; but that was not the courfe of Lord Nelfon." P. 111. The book is moftly made up from official difpatches, and other publications,

ART. 38. A Treatise on the Art of Bread-making. Wherein the Mealing Trade, Affize Laws, and every Circumftance connected with the Art, iş particularly examined. By A. Edlin. 221 pp. 4s. 6d. Vernor and Hood. 1805.

12mo.

"At the Theatre of Guy's Hofpital, in London, there is eftablished a fociety of medical men, who meet once a week, during the winter feafon, to communicate fuch new facts and obfervations as occur in the courfe of their practice. At the fame time, a differtation on fome medical or philofophical fubject is brought forward, and read by the members in their turn; which, after due deliberation, and an exordium from the prefident, is calmly inveftigated; when fome of the lecturers, and many of the most eminent men in the profeffion, are frequently induced to give their opinion, for the promotion of medical knowledge, and the improvement of the ftudents in particular; who, while they only appear to be enjoying an agreeable evening's converfation are, in reality, laying up a treasure of useful knowledge. Such is the origin of the prefent performance." Preface.

A very refpectable origin it is; and the defign promises much benefit to the public. The fubjects here treated of are--the natural hiftory and cultivation of wheat; the mealing trade; the manner of preferving and grinding the different forts of corn; the analyfis and fynthefis of wheat; the nature of yeaft, with methods for generating and preparing it, and the mode of fermentation; the feveral preparations of bread; the ftructure of a bakehoufe; and finally, a connected view of all the laws at present in force refpecting the manner of regulating the affize of bread, both in

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town and country. The appendix contains obfervations on the profits, loffes, and expences incurred by a baker. We strongly recommend this work to all thofe for whofe ufe it was defigned; to students in experimenta! philofophy; to frugal housewives; to captains of fhips and military men; to bakers; and generally o all who wish to purchafe and cat unadulterated, whole fome, and good bread.

ART. 39. Exempla Erasmiana; or, English Examples, (for the Use of beginners) to be turned into Latin, according to the Order of the Rules in Erasmus's "Compendira of the Latin Syntax.” To which are added, a few English Idiomatical Exprfions. By B. D. Free, A. M. 8vo. 188 pp. 35. Rabinfan. 1806.

The author fates, that the fuperior advantage this Exercifebook contains is, that the compendium rules are inferted at length, with their explanation; and thefe rales fhould be committed to memory, fo that it may equally ferve as a fyntaxis. This prodection (as the title exprettes) is intended more immediately for beginners; and with that view the examples are not only few in number, but concife in themfelves, for the more immediate pur pofe of exemplying each refpective rule; and at the end are fubjoined fome idiomatical Englith expreffions, not directly referring to, or comprifed ander, any particular rule in Lain. Neither the gender nor declention of the noun is affixed, and merely the figure to point out the conjugation of the verb, that the fcholar may be compelled to ufe his dictionary, which in general is too much neglected." Preface.

We fhall fhow our refpect for this work, and for fuch books in general, by a few remarks, of which the afithor may hereafter avail himself.

We approve of the Latin rules Englished; bat we think the example would come better after the English, than after the Latin rule as at p. 28, "Ut, omnes omnia, &c." Here too (as in other cafes) the example should be diftinguished from the rule, by being printed in a different type. P. 33, at bottom, "Verus amicus, &c." does not exemplify the rule. In many inftances, there is an anticipation of rules; particularly, at p. 34, “Obtempero," where, as the verb governs a dative cafe, it is furely, mifplaced. A very effential rule in the gerunds, "Vertuntur etiam gerundia in nomina adjectiva," (Eton) is unfortunately omitted. Surely, it is in Erafmus's Syntax, which we have not at hand. At p. 155, the examples are too few; there should be one, at the least, in each word. We do not agree with the author, in the rule, "QUIN, jubendi," &c. (p. 158). The verb venio, after quin, fhould not be in the future indicative, but more elegantly in the prefent fubjunctive; as, non dubito quin veniat. Quin is feldom put with an indicative, except when it means Car

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on; as, Quin cafti hominem? quin accipis ? for imo, indica. tive: or imperative, as Quin tu hoc audi.

We are of opinion that the book will be found useful, with the alterations which we have fuggefted; and occafionally, a recapi tulatory exercife.

ART. 40.
A Father's Memoirs of his Child. By Benjamin Heath
Malkin, Efq. M. A. F. A. S. Royal 8vo. 172 pp. 1os. 6d.
Longman and Co. 1806.

With its beautiful portrait in the frontispiece, its plates of infantine sketches, its fine paper, print, and literary luxury, this book is exactly what might, without impropriety, have been put together as a private prefent from a father to his own particular friends, and thofe to whom the fubject was known; but as a production to be laid before the public, it is one of the most idle and fuperfluous works that we have ever feen. It teaches nothing but what every one may know without it, that much goodness of underftanding and difpofition may be difplayed from a very early period of life; and it exemplifies chiefly what is feen con tinually, that the partiality of parents can easily convert trifles into prodigies.

In a very long and elaborate addrefs to a valuable friend, by way of dedication, another fuppofed prodigy is celebrated, the defigner of the frontifpiece to the book. He is celebrated both as an artist and as a poet; but fo little judgment is shown, in our opinion, with regard to the proofs of thefe talents, that we much doubt whether the encomium will be at all useful to the perfon praised. As an artift, he feems to be one of thofe who mistake extravagance for genius; as is teftified, even by his angel in the frontispiece, though the kneeling figure is elegant, and that of the child paffable. As a poet, he feems chiefly infpired by that,

Nurfe of the didactic mufe,

Divine Nonsensia.

Loves of Triangles.

ART. 41.
Letters from Paraguay, defcribing the Settlements of
Monto Video and Buenos Ayres, the Prefidencies of Rioja Minor,
Nombre de Dios, St. Mary and St. John, &c. with the
Manners, Cuftoms, religious Ceremonies, &c. of the Inhabitants.
Written during a Refidence of jeventeen Months in that
Country. By John Conftanje Davie, Ejq. 8vo. 58. Robin-
fon. 1805.

As this work appeared before the fettlement of Buenos Ayres was added to the British Dominions, it is not fubject to the imputation of being a mere temporary compilation. The account

given of the author is, that he left this country from fome love difappointment, and proceeded to New York, after which he embarked on a trading voyage to Botany Bay; he was obliged by a ftorm to make for the river Plata, whence he afterwards went to Buenos Ayres; where, being feized with a fever, he was left to the care of the fathers of the convent of St. Dominic. He afterwards attended one of the fathers to fome of the prefidencies in the interior of the Province of Paraguay. His obfervations he communicated to his friend at New York. He was last heard of at Chili, but whether he is now living is uncertain. It is an entertaining volume, and will, at this particular period, be, we doubt not, generally acceptable.

ART. 42. A Walk through Leeds, or Stranger's Guide to every Thing worth Notice in that Antient and populous Town, with an Account of the Woollen Manufacture of the Weft Riding of Yorkshire, with Plates. I 2mo. Is. 6d. Crosby. 1806.

This is a very neat and cheap representation of fuch things as are worth a traveller's curiofity with refpect to Leeds. The account of the Woollen manufacture, tho' concife, is fatisfactory. We have from this tract the pleafing information, that the increafe of the manufacture has in the last year been 17,896 pieces of $45,139 yards,

MONTHLY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

DIVINITY.

Further Evidences of the Exiftence of the Deity, intended as an humble Supplement to Archdeacon Paley's Natural Theology. By George Clark.

25.

A Letter to the Hebrew Nation. By Charles Crawford, Efq. 25.

The Rife, Fall, and future Reftoration of the Jews. Ta which are annexed, Six Sermons addreffed to the Seed of Abra ham. By feveral Evangelical Minifters. 5s.

National Bleffings, Reafons for Religious Gratitude, a Sermon, preached at St. James's Church, Bath, December 5, 1805, the Day of General Thanksgiving. By the Rev. Richard Warner, Curate of St. James's Parish. 25.

A plain and affectionate Addrefs to the Parishioners of St. Martin's and All Saints, in Leicester, from the Rev. Thomas Vaughan, A. M. their Vicar.

Is. 6d.

A Sermon occafioned by the Circumstances of the Victory of Trafalgar, and delivered on Board His Majefty's Ship Britannia,

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